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Lake Victoria : Report

News: According to a recent scientific study appearing in the journal Nature, the Lake Victoria Basin’s enormous human populations as well as its unique species are being negatively impacted by significant changes in precipitation and an increase in extreme climate events.

Key conclusions of the study:

The survival and availability to water of the communities residing in the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB), East Africa, are threatened by torrential downpours, windstorms, and floods.

Extreme weather conditions like frequent flooding have a significant impact on nearly 40 million people.

Over 200,000 people in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were relocated as a result of the severe floods that occurred in lake-adjacent communities.

Rapid population growth, agricultural expansion, urbanisation, and industrialization have all contributed to severe pressure and deterioration on Lake Victoria and the marshes and woodlands that surround it.

The second-largest freshwater lake in the world is called Lake Victoria.

Its borders with Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya are in East Africa.

In Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, it is also known by the names Victoria Nyanza, Nalubaale, and Ukerewe.

It serves as the origin of the White Nile River, which empties into the Blue Nile in Sudan to form the Nile River.